[comp.lang.c] File handling speend question

flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) (06/17/90)

wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
>I have been wondering which of the two types of file control functions are
>faster in Quick C: the standard 'C' fscanf, fread, etc. or the DOS extensions
>_dos_read & _dos_write.

If the `f' routines do buffering and the others do not, as is often the case,
then probably code using the `f' routines will be faster.